layered vertex scalar

[Bruno Deremble]

Hello,

I am trying to update an old code where I had such declaration

vertex scalar q;
q = new vertex scalar[nl];


Which used to work but I now get a compilation error: I get

error: implicit declaration of function ‘new_block_vertex_scalar’; did you mean ‘new_vertex_scalar’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]


Indeed, when looking at cartesian-common, I do not find the equivalent of
`new_block_scalar` for a vertex field


I tried to add this function as a quasi-duplicate of new_block_scalar

scalar new_block_vertex_scalar (const char * name, const char * ext, int block)
{
scalar s = alloc_block_scalar (name, ext, block), sb;
int n = 0;
for (sb.i = s.i, n = 0; n < block; n++, sb.i++)
init_vertex_scalar (sb, NULL);
return s;
}


but got into more troubles.


Has anyone tried to use layered vertex scalar recently? The syntax to declare
such fields may have changed?

Thank you
Bruno